GRE Word List
INCINERATE
to cause to burn to ashes
The meaning of the word incinerate is to cause to burn to ashes.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |