GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| bullion | gold or silver considered as so much metal |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| swill | wash |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| collage | an artistic composition made of various materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |