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provident

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore P words

making careful provision for the future; prudent

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Provident in a sentence

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A provident saver, she had set aside funds for every emergency.

Synonyms
prudentthriftyfarsightedfrugal
Antonyms
improvidentwastefulshortsighted

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Provident (adjective) means making careful provision for the future; prudent
Here is provident used in an example sentence: "A provident saver, she had set aside funds for every emergency."
Common synonyms for provident include prudent, thrifty, farsighted, frugal.
Antonyms of provident include improvident, wasteful, shortsighted.
Provident is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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