GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| significant | having meaning |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |