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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| progeny | descendants |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| 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 |