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 |
|---|---|
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |