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 |
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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 |