GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regime | regimen |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |