GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| reckon | count |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |