GRE Word List
FREEBOOTER
pirate
The meaning of the word freebooter is pirate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |