GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| calorific | caloric |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |