GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| eventual | contingent |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| regime | regimen |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |