GRE Word List
POSTERITY
the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
The meaning of the word posterity is the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| viable | capable of living |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| concatenate | linked together |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |