GRE Word List
HEGEMONY
preponderant influence or authority over others : domination
The meaning of the word hegemony is preponderant influence or authority over others : domination.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| ebullient | boiling |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| effusion | an act of effusing |