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 |
|---|---|
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |