In a sentence
Six example sentences with ancestry, each labelled with its topic.
A cheek swab traced her ancestry to two villages her grandparents had never mentioned by name.
Science
Parish registers let the family follow its ancestry back nine generations, ending at a miller who signed with a cross.
History
Every apple in the orchard shares an ancestry with wild trees still growing in the mountains of Kazakhstan.
Environment
The saga opens with the hero's ancestry recited back nine generations to a king nobody else remembers.
Literature
The point guard's ancestry includes a grandfather who played in the league's very first season.
Basketball
Doctors ask about ancestry because a few inherited conditions cluster in particular populations.
Medicine
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
Each source is a published word list that contains ancestry. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.