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 |
|---|---|
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| fell | skin |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |