GRE Word List
GERONTOCRACY
rule by elders
The meaning of the word gerontocracy is rule by elders.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| array | to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire : adorn |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| succor | relief |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| overweening | arrogant |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |