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 |
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| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| conspire | plot |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |