GRE Word List
CONTRIVE
devise
The meaning of the word contrive is devise.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |