GRE Word List
REGENT
a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign
The meaning of the word regent is a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
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infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
abode | the place where one lives : home |
peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
didactic | designed or intended to teach |