GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |
| migrant | one that migrates: such as |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |