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 |
|---|---|
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| leery | suspicious |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |