GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| cherubic | an order of angels see celestial hierarchy |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |