GRE Word List
ENGENDER
beget
The meaning of the word engender is beget.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| domicile | a dwelling place : place of residence : home |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |