GRE Word List
ENGENDER
beget
The meaning of the word engender is beget.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| swill | wash |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |