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 |
|---|---|
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |