GRE Word List
FREEBOOTER
pirate
The meaning of the word freebooter is pirate.
Random words
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luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
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 |
termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
fodder | something fed to domestic animals |