GRE Word List
PROJECTILE
a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia
The meaning of the word projectile is a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravenous | rapacious |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |