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 |
|---|---|
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |