GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cadaver | a dead body |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| lugubrious | mournful |