GRE Word List

CONTRIVE

devise

The meaning of the word contrive is devise.

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WordMeaning
boostto push or shove up from below
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
sinecurean office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income
titanichaving great magnitude, force, or power : colossal
distraitapprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted
pestilentialcausing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly
dissuadeto advise (a person) against something
threadbarehaving the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby
staticexerting force by reason of weight alone without motion
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric