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 |
|---|---|
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| shove | to push along |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| pundit | pandit |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |