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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obtrudeto thrust out : extrude
condigndeserved
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maneuvera military or naval movement
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platonicof, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism