GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
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| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
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| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
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