GRE Word List
PLUTOCRACY
government by the wealthy
The meaning of the word plutocracy is government by the wealthy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| inequity | injustice |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |