GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| apprehend | arrest |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| culmination | the action of culminating |