GRE Word List
TYRANNY
oppressive power
The meaning of the word tyranny is oppressive power.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |