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 |
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| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |