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 |
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| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| clown | farmer |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |