GRE Word List
BUREAUCRACY
a body of nonelected government officials
The meaning of the word bureaucracy is a body of nonelected government officials.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| ram | a male sheep |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |