GRE Word List
INCENDIARY
igniting combustible materials spontaneously
The meaning of the word incendiary is igniting combustible materials spontaneously.
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| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |