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 |
|---|---|
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| harass | exhaust |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| welter | writhe |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |