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 |
|---|---|
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| welter | writhe |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| spare | not being used |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |