GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| trenchant | keen |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |