GRE Word List
DESPOT
a ruler with absolute power and authority
The meaning of the word despot is a ruler with absolute power and authority.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| throes | pang |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| flounder | flatfish |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| abnegation | denial |