GRE Word List
SOVEREIGNTY
supreme power especially over a body politic
The meaning of the word sovereignty is supreme power especially over a body politic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| hirsute | hairy |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |