GRE Word List
AUDIT
a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
The meaning of the word audit is a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provenance | origin |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |