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 |
|---|---|
| scourge | whip |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |