GRE Word List
CHANCELLOR
legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor
The meaning of the word chancellor is legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| internecine | mutually destructive |
| laconic | brief and to the point; using few words; terse |
| grouch | bad-tempered complaint; person who keeps complaining; V: complain; grumble |
| nugatory | worthless; futile |
| vernacular | living language (as compared to the official language); language spoken in a country or region; natural style; Ex. lapse into the vernacular |
| zany | comic; crazy; N: clown; comical person (given to outlandish behavior) |
| rectitude | moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
| mischance | ill luck |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| peerless | having no equal; incomparable |
