GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |