GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| peerless | matchless |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |