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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| pending | during |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
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| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| welter | writhe |