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 |
|---|---|
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |