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 |
|---|---|
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| nib | bill |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |