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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relevanthaving significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand
inanimatenot animate:
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
versatileembracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
dioramaa scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening
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codifyto reduce to a code
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