GRE Word List
VOLATILE
characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
The meaning of the word volatile is characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |