GRE Word List
ANCESTRY
line of descent : lineage
The meaning of the word ancestry is line of descent : lineage.
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| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |