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 |
|---|---|
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |