GRE Word List
PROVIDENT
frugal
The meaning of the word provident is frugal.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |