GRE Word List
CONTINGENT
dependent on or conditioned by something else
The meaning of the word contingent is dependent on or conditioned by something else.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venue | locale |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| doddering | feeble |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |