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 |
|---|---|
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| fulcrum | prop |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |