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 |
|---|---|
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| haggard | not tamed |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |