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 |
|---|---|
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| providence | divine guidance or care |