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 |
|---|---|
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| nurture | training |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |