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 |
|---|---|
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| unfrock | defrock |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |