GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |