GRE Word List
SMOLDER
to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke
The meaning of the word smolder is to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke.
Random words
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distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
conflagration | fire |
tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |