GRE Word List
PROGENY
descendants
The meaning of the word progeny is descendants.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| irate | roused to ire |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| cryptic | secret |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |