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 |
|---|---|
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| retiring | reserved |
| exegesis | exposition |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |