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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| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| dour | stern |
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| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| drab | slattern |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
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| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
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