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 |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| freebooter | pirate |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |