GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
origin
The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| juncture | a point of time |