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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| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| 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 |