GRE Word List
ANCESTRY
line of descent : lineage
The meaning of the word ancestry is line of descent : lineage.
Random words
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| auroral | dawn |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |