GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |