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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flaila hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely
incorporateto unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole
grottocave
takeoffa rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket
respirationthe movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs
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legerdemainsleight of hand
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corroborateto support with evidence or authority : make more certain