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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beatitudea state of utmost bliss
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edifyto instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift
chortleto sing or chant exultantly
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apostateone who commits apostasy
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nauticalof, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships
diaphanouscharacterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
paraphernaliathe separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life