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 |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |