GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |