GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mendicant | beggar |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |