GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |