GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |