GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
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| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
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| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| actuary | clerk |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |