GRE Word List
FILIBUSTER
an irregular military adventurer
The meaning of the word filibuster is an irregular military adventurer.
Random words
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| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| gazette | newspaper |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| docile | easily taught |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |