GRE Word List
INCENDIARY
igniting combustible materials spontaneously
The meaning of the word incendiary is igniting combustible materials spontaneously.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |