GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| pitfall | trap |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |