GRE Word List
PROVIDENT
frugal
The meaning of the word provident is frugal.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| alleviate | relieve |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |