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.

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littera covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger
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fumbleto grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly
daisa raised platform (as in a hall or large room)
incipientbeginning to come into being or to become apparent
sanguinarybloodthirsty
disquisitiona formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse
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germa small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts
whitthe smallest part or particle imaginable : bit