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 |
|---|---|
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| privy | private |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |