GRE Word List
ANARCHY
absence of government
The meaning of the word anarchy is absence of government.
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| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| clime | climate |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |