GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |