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 |
|---|---|
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| mammal | any 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 |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| dys- | abnormal |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |