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 |
|---|---|
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| gazette | newspaper |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |