GRE Word List
PATRIARCH
one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people
The meaning of the word patriarch is one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |