GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ยน/โโ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| 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 |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |