GRE Word List

FOREBEARS

ancestor

The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.

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healthfulbeneficial to health of body or mind
sproutto grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout
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sporadicoccurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
primaloriginal
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