GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
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pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
cringe | to recoil in distaste |
leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
romp | one that romps |
graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |