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 |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| forebears | ancestor |