GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| savant | a person of learning |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |