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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |