GRE Word List
IMMOLATE
to kill or destroy especially by fire
The meaning of the word immolate is to kill or destroy especially by fire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| haggard | not tamed |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| purported | reputed |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| harass | exhaust |