GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brochure | pamphlet |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| enduring | lasting |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |