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 |
|---|---|
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| significant | having meaning |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |