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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|---|---|
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| resign | relegate |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |