GRE Word List
TYRANNY
oppressive power
The meaning of the word tyranny is oppressive power.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
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