GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |