GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| calculated | apt |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |