GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
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brand | a charred piece of wood |
junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
ration | a food allowance for one day |
portly | dignified |
gusto | an individual or special taste |
blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |