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 |
|---|---|
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |