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 |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| 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 |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| mendicant | beggar |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| minuscule | very small |