GRE Word List

PROVENANCE

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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.

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analogya comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect
queasycausing nausea
barristera counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor
littera covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger
psychosomaticof, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body
ewethe female of the sheep especially when mature
metropolisthe chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
ignominydeep personal humiliation and disgrace
dysenterya disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
vagaryan erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion