GRE Word List
PROVISIONAL
serving for the time being : temporary
The meaning of the word provisional is serving for the time being : temporary.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| edifice | building |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| enduring | lasting |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |