GRE Word List
FREEBOOTER
pirate
The meaning of the word freebooter is pirate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ancillary | subordinate |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| exhume | disinter |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |