GRE Word List
PRIMOGENITURE
the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents
The meaning of the word primogeniture is the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.
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| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
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| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| warrant | sanction |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |