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 |
|---|---|
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |