GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| verge | brink |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |