GRE Word List
PROVIDENT
frugal
The meaning of the word provident is frugal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| lode | waterway |
| quench | put out |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |