GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |