GRE Word List
ASCENDANCY
governing or controlling influence : domination
The meaning of the word ascendancy is governing or controlling influence : domination.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| dominate | rule |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| rightful | just |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |