GRE Word List
KINDLE
to start (a fire) burning : light
The meaning of the word kindle is to start (a fire) burning : light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |