GRE Word List

FOREBEARS

ancestor

The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.

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homagea feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord
regimena systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient
vertigoa sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
ponderousof very great weight
shoddya reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo
interto deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb
disgruntleto make ill-humored or discontented
residuesomething that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant
juggernauta massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path