GRE Word List
QUICKSILVER
mercury
The meaning of the word quicksilver is mercury.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |