GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| deify | to make a god of |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| brawny | muscular |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |