GRE Word List
KINDLE
to start (a fire) burning : light
The meaning of the word kindle is to start (a fire) burning : light.
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| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
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| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |