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 |
|---|---|
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |