GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |