GRE Word List
QUENCH
put out
The meaning of the word quench is put out.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| provenance | origin |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |