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 |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| charlatan | quack |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| privy | private |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| disclaim | to make a disclaimer |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |