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.

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behooveto be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
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epitaphan inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there
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