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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WordMeaning
paraphrasea restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form
adhereto hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
confluencea coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point
wontaccustomed
temporizeto act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
sledgesledgehammer
nutrientfurnishing nourishment
doctrinairestubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations
turncoatone who switches to an opposing side or party