GRE Word List
RAMPANT
rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended
The meaning of the word rampant is rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |