GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
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| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
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| errant | behaving wrongly |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |