GRE Word List
MILITANT
engaged in warfare or combat : fighting
The meaning of the word militant is engaged in warfare or combat : fighting.
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| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |