GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| application | an act of applying: |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| sanction | a formal decree |
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| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
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| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |