GRE Word List
IRASCIBLE
marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
The meaning of the word irascible is marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger.
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| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |