GRE Word List

QUENCH

put out

The meaning of the word quench is put out.

Random words

WordMeaning
religiousrelating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
solecisman ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
distraughtagitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain
panegyrica eulogistic oration or writing
psychosomaticof, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body
swearto utter or take solemnly (an oath)
scorchto burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture
despiseto look down on with disrespect or aversion
ironythe use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans