GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |