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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| zealot | a zealous person |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| acclaim | applaud |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
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| brink | edge |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |