GRE Word List
MERCURIAL
of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury
The meaning of the word mercurial is of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| debonair | suave |