GRE Word List
RAMPART
a protective barrier : bulwark
The meaning of the word rampart is a protective barrier : bulwark.
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| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |