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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| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| 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") |