GRE Word List
MOUNTEBANK
a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
The meaning of the word mountebank is a person who sells quack medicines from a platform.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| 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 |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |