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 |
|---|---|
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |