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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cornucopiaa curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance
inaugurateto induct into an office with suitable ceremonies
ingenioushaving or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving
tentativenot fully worked out or developed
objectiveexpressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
labilereadily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable
gauntexcessively thin and angular
solublesusceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water
antediluvianof or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible
hereafterafter this in sequence or in time