GRE Word List
STOKE
to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel
The meaning of the word stoke is to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| disclaim | to make a disclaimer |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |