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 |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |