GRE Word List
QUENCH
put out
The meaning of the word quench is put out.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| anarchy | absence of government |