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 |
|---|---|
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| sibling | sib |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| constraint | the act of constraining |