GRE Word List

FOREBEARS

ancestor

The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.

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WordMeaning
castrateto deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes
tranquillitythe quality or state of being tranquil
travailwork especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
disdaina feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn
impoliticnot politic : unwise
gnarledfull of knots or gnarls : knotty
mammalany 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
provisionthe act or process of providing
nebulousof, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular
pluckto pull or pick off or out