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

WordMeaning
capricea sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action
supinelying on the back or with the face upward
impendingoccurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming
denotationan act or process of denoting
moltto shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
presumptuousoverstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties
dys-abnormal
sonorousproducing sound (as when struck)
pronouncedstrongly marked : decided