GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flounder | flatfish |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| stink | to emit a strong offensive odor |