GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |