GRE Word List
ENGENDER
beget
The meaning of the word engender is beget.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| delve | excavate |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |