GRE Word List
OLIGARCHY
government by the few
The meaning of the word oligarchy is government by the few.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| schism | division |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |