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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |