GRE Word List
BULWARK
a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart
The meaning of the word bulwark is a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart.
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| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
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| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |