GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
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| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |