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 |
|---|---|
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| actuary | clerk |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| score | twenty |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |