GRE Word List

DESPERADO

a bold or violent criminal

The meaning of the word desperado is a bold or violent criminal.

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suavitysmoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
ordainto invest (see invest
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contentiouslikely to cause disagreement or argument
chapela subordinate or private place of worship: such as
crevicea narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure
sowan adult female swine
dilemmaa usually undesirable or unpleasant choice
piquantengagingly provocative