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 |
|---|---|
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| lunar | crescent |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |