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 |
|---|---|
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |