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 |
|---|---|
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| concatenate | linked together |
| hirsute | hairy |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |