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 |
|---|---|
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |