GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| politic | political |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |