GRE Word List
DESPERADO
a bold or violent criminal
The meaning of the word desperado is a bold or violent criminal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| inundate | overwhelm |