GRE Word List
LINEAGE
descent in a line from a common progenitor
The meaning of the word lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| demise | death |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| garner | to gather into storage |