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 |
|---|---|
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |