GRE Word List
OLIGARCHY
government by the few
The meaning of the word oligarchy is government by the few.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |