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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |