GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |