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 |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| cohorts | companion |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |