GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| minuscule | very small |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |