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 |
|---|---|
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |