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providence

nounCommon GRE wordMore P words

prudent management and provision for the future

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Providence in a sentence

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Through careful providence she had set aside enough to weather the long winter.

Synonyms
foresightprudencethrift
Antonyms
improvidencerecklessness

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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Providence (noun) means prudent management and provision for the future
Here is providence used in an example sentence: "Through careful providence she had set aside enough to weather the long winter."
Common synonyms for providence include foresight, prudence, thrift.
Antonyms of providence include improvidence, recklessness.
Providence is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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