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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| impuissance | weakness |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |