CRACY means

• A. Government
• B. Democracy
• C. Theocracy
• D. Monarchy

Answer: (B)

CRACY signals a system of government or the way power is exercised. It comes from a Greek root meaning rule or power, so words ending in -cracy name forms of governance. The best match among these options is democracy because it literally means rule by the people—this is the classic example of a -cracy, a way of describing how power is exercised in that system. The other terms point to specific forms or concepts of government, but they don’t illustrate the general idea that the suffix conveys as clearly; monarchy uses a different suffix (-archy), and while theocracy is also a form of government, the common takeaway for -cracy is the idea of rule by a particular group, with democracy being the most familiar instance.