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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |