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 |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| score | twenty |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |