GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |