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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazard | a source of danger |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |