GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| congenial | pleasant |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| gargantuan | tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic |