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
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| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| 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 |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| blanch | to take the color out of |