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 |
|---|---|
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| lode | waterway |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| prolong | to lengthen in time : continue |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |