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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stolidhaving or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional
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scurryto move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper
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coymarked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
lotan object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with
symbiosisthe living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)
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