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 |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| demise | death |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |