GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sleek | slick |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| hap | happening |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |