GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| sidetrack | siding |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |