GRE Word List
FILIBUSTER
an irregular military adventurer
The meaning of the word filibuster is an irregular military adventurer.
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| paean | a joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph |
| appease | pacify |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |