GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| environ | encircle |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| articulate | expressing oneself readily, clearly, and effectively |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |