GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |