GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| bauble | trinket |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |