GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| tome | book |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |