GRE Word List
CONTRIVANCE
a thing contrived
The meaning of the word contrivance is a thing contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| quench | put out |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| inequity | injustice |
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |