GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |