GRE Word List
VAGRANT
one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
The meaning of the word vagrant is one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| espouse | marry |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |