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 |
|---|---|
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |