GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| mendicant | beggar |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |