GRE Word List
MISSILE
capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object
The meaning of the word missile is capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |