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
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| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |