GRE Word List
CATAPULT
an ancient military device for hurling missiles
The meaning of the word catapult is an ancient military device for hurling missiles.
Random words
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|---|---|
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| courier | messenger |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| 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") |