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 |
|---|---|
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
