GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| docile | easily taught |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| patent | open to public inspection |