GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| noisome | noxious |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| annuity | a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals |
| mote | a small particle : speck |