GRE Word List
OLIGARCHY
government by the few
The meaning of the word oligarchy is government by the few.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |