GRE Word List
INCANDESCENT
white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat
The meaning of the word incandescent is white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| poise | balance |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |