GRE Word List
PROVENANCE
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The meaning of the word provenance is origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |