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.
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| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| wreak | bring about |
| seemly | good-looking |
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| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
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| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |