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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| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| shambles | a meat market |
| 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 |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |