tinder
Other forms: tinders
Tinder is one of the things you need to start a fire — it's the extremely dry stuff, like wood or paper, that catches easily and helps get your fire going. To build a campfire, you need both logs and tinder.
You might also call tinder kindling. This material is so dry and flammable that it quickly catches on fire and burns long enough to ignite the larger pieces of wood in your fireplace or outdoor fire pit. The word stems from the Old English tynder, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning "ignite" or "kindle."
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material for starting a fire
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Vocabulary lists containing tinder
Do you have a burning desire to heat up your lexicon? Good news — these words are on fire.
As you read Margaret Peterson Haddix's "Uprising," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 6: history writings about the Triangle Factory Fire, Uprising, Working Toward Peace, A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long, Train Time