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 |
|---|---|
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |