GRE Word List
FREEBOOTER
pirate
The meaning of the word freebooter is pirate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |