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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |