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 |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| politic | political |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| resign | relegate |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |