GRE Word List
TYRANNY
oppressive power
The meaning of the word tyranny is oppressive power.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |