GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |