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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |