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 |
|---|---|
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| rightful | just |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |