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 |
|---|---|
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| superannuated | outmoded |