GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |