GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| exegesis | exposition |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |