GRE Word List
GENEALOGY
an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms
The meaning of the word genealogy is an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |