GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |