GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| docile | easily taught |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |