GRE Word List
CONTRAVENE
to go or act contrary to : violate
The meaning of the word contravene is to go or act contrary to : violate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| congruent | congruous |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| demise | death |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |