GRE Word List
PROVINCIAL
the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order
The meaning of the word provincial is the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implication | something implied: such as |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| dint | force |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |