GRE Word List
ANCESTRY
line of descent : lineage
The meaning of the word ancestry is line of descent : lineage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inanimate | not animate: |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| omnipotent | almighty |