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 |
|---|---|
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |