GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| dart | a light spear |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |