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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| enduring | lasting |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| horticultural | the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |