GRE Word List
BOMBARDMENT
a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones
The meaning of the word bombardment is a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| leery | suspicious |