GRE Word List
MATRIARCH
a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state
The meaning of the word matriarch is a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| aria | air |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |