GRE Word List
FOREBEARS
ancestor
The meaning of the word forebears is ancestor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| clasp | a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |