GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |