GRE Word List
TYRANNY
oppressive power
The meaning of the word tyranny is oppressive power.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |