GRE Word List
DEMAGOGUE
a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
The meaning of the word demagogue is a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| natal | native |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |