GRE Word List
FREEBOOTER
pirate
The meaning of the word freebooter is pirate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| pitfall | trap |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |