GRE Word List

VIGILANTE

a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)

The meaning of the word vigilante is a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate).

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WordMeaning
enumerateto ascertain the number of : count
scholarlyof, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
artifactsa usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object
raspto rub with something rough
monograma sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name
novaa star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years
dramaa composition (see composition
relapsethe act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding
droopto hang or incline downward