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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | material for starting a fire |
| Synonyms: | coals, fatwood, firewood, lightwood, tinder, twigs, wood |
| Main Entry: | kindle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, incite |
| Synonyms: | agitate, animate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn up, challenge, egg on, enkindle, exasperate, fire up, foment, get smoking, induce, inflame, inspire, key up, provoke, rally, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on, wake, waken, whet, work up |
| Antonyms: | disenchant, turn off |
| Main Entry: | awakening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making conscious or alert |
| Synonyms: | activation, animating, arousal, awaking, birth, enlivening, incitement, kindling, provocation, rebirth, renewal, revival, rousing, stimulation, stirring up, vivication, waking, waking up |
| Antonyms: | sleep, sleeping |
| Main Entry: | combustible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be exploded |
| Synonyms: | burnable, comburent, combustive, explosive, fiery, firing, flammable, ignitable, incendiary, inflammable, kindling, volatile |
| Antonyms: | noncombustible, nonexplosive |
| Main Entry: | combustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explosion; on fire |
| Synonyms: | agitation, candescence, disturbance, flaming, ignition, kindling, oxidization, thermogenesis, tumult, turmoil |
| Main Entry: | fired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subjected to fire |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, baked, burned, burning, enkindled, glowing, heated, incandescent, kindled, kindling, on fire, scorched, set on fire, smoking, smoldering |
| Main Entry: | firewood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cordwood |
| Synonyms: | kindling, stove-lengths, woodpile |
| Main Entry: | tinder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wood for fire |
| Synonyms: | fuel, kindling, punk, wood |
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