GRE Word List
PATRIMONY
an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor
The meaning of the word patrimony is an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |