GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| fete | festival |
| tint | a usually slight or pale coloration : hue |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |