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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vagrantone who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
undertakerone who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur
ejaculationan act of ejaculating
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
scuttlea shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce)
retortto pay or hurl back : return
notableworthy of note : remarkable
freneticmarked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied
parameteran arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves)