GRE Word List
REGICIDE
a person who kills a king
The meaning of the word regicide is a person who kills a king.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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dys- | abnormal |
ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |