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 |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| mortician | undertaker |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| charlatan | quack |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |