GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| stringent | tight |
| demerit | offense |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |