GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |