GRE Word List
MONARCHY
undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person
The meaning of the word monarchy is undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |