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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| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
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