GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| debut | a first appearance |
| demerit | offense |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |