GRE Word List
TYRANNY
oppressive power
The meaning of the word tyranny is oppressive power.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| pitfall | trap |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| docile | easily taught |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |