GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
origin
The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| 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 |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| cipher | zero |
| exegesis | exposition |
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |