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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| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |