GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| 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 |
| heed | to pay attention |
| cipher | zero |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| compelling | that compels: such as |