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.
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|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| cryptic | secret |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| 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 |