GRE Word List
PEDIGREE
a register recording a line of ancestors
The meaning of the word pedigree is a register recording a line of ancestors.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |