GRE Word List
GENTRY
upper or ruling class : aristocracy
The meaning of the word gentry is upper or ruling class : aristocracy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |