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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |