GRE Word List
CONSTITUENCY
a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position)
The meaning of the word constituency is a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |