GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| implode | to burst inward |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |