GRE Word List

THEOCRACY

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

The meaning of the word theocracy is government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.

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functionalof, connected with, or being a function
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intractablenot easily governed, managed, or directed
crotchetygiven to crotchets (see crotchet
adjacentnot distant : nearby
denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
circumlocutionthe use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
epitaphan inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there