GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
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| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| diadem | crown |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |