GRE Word List
BEGET
to procreate as the father : sire
The meaning of the word beget is to procreate as the father : sire.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| pitfall | trap |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |