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 |
|---|---|
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| contest | strive |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |