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 |
|---|---|
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| lampoon | satire |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |