GRE Word List
PROVISIONAL
serving for the time being : temporary
The meaning of the word provisional is serving for the time being : temporary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| edifice | building |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |