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 |
|---|---|
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |