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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| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
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| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |