GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |