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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |