GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |