GRE Word List
BUREAUCRACY
a body of nonelected government officials
The meaning of the word bureaucracy is a body of nonelected government officials.
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| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |