GRE Word List
ARISTOCRACY
government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class
The meaning of the word aristocracy is government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| spare | not being used |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| flighty | swift |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |