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.
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| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| brook | creek |
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| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
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