GRE Word List
POSTHUMOUS
born after the death of the father
The meaning of the word posthumous is born after the death of the father.
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| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |