GRE Word List
GENTRY
upper or ruling class : aristocracy
The meaning of the word gentry is upper or ruling class : aristocracy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |