GRE Word List
CONTRIVED
having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial
The meaning of the word contrived is having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |