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 |
|---|---|
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| betray | to lead astray |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |