GRE Word List
MILITANT
engaged in warfare or combat : fighting
The meaning of the word militant is engaged in warfare or combat : fighting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| charlatan | quack |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| antecede | precede |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |