GRE Word List
CASUALTY
a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
The meaning of the word casualty is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |