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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |