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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |