GRE Word List
PROGENITOR
an ancestor in the direct line : forefather
The meaning of the word progenitor is an ancestor in the direct line : forefather.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |