GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |