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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oversee | survey |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| lax | loose |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |