GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |