GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |