GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| forlorn | bereft |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |