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 |
|---|---|
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |