GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |