GRE Word List
PROVISO
an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition
The meaning of the word proviso is an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| schism | division |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| verge | brink |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |