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 |
|---|---|
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| query | question |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| mogul | an Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |