GRE Word List
REGICIDE
a person who kills a king
The meaning of the word regicide is a person who kills a king.
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|---|---|
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| wry | twist |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |