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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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| doddering | feeble |
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| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| billowing | wave |
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| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |