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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |