GRE Word List
CULPRIT
one accused of or charged with a crime
The meaning of the word culprit is one accused of or charged with a crime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| aptitude | inclination |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |