GRE Word List

HEADLONG

headfirst

The meaning of the word headlong is headfirst.

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hostagea person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement
sticklerone who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something
philanthropistone who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy
malignanttending to produce death or deterioration
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
slanderto utter slander against : defame
deviseto form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent
morosehaving a sullen and gloomy disposition
abutto border on : to touch along an edge
connotationsomething suggested by a word or thing : implication