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 |
|---|---|
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |