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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| antecede | precede |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |