GRE Word List
INCENSE
material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned
The meaning of the word incense is material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned.
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| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
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| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |