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 |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| rotunda | a round building |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| migratory | of, relating to, or characterized by migration |
| unsavory | insipid |
| hurl | rush |