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 |
|---|---|
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| calorific | caloric |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| throes | pang |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |