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 |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| expatriate | banish |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
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| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |