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 |
|---|---|
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| poise | balance |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |