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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frigid | intensely cold |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| retrench | cut down |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |