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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ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
score | twenty |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |