GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| debut | a first appearance |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |