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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| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| raspy | harsh |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |