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.
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| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| 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 |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |