GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| amity | friendship |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |