GRE Word List
PROVIDENT
frugal
The meaning of the word provident is frugal.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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adjacent | not distant : nearby |
supplicant | one who supplicates |
hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
comprise | to be made up of |
castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
sustain | to give support or relief to |
shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |