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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| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
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| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
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