GRE Word List
ANCESTRY
line of descent : lineage
The meaning of the word ancestry is line of descent : lineage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| executor | one who executes something |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |