GRE Word List
QUENCH
put out
The meaning of the word quench is put out.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| brawny | muscular |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| 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 |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |