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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |