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 |
|---|---|
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| charlatan | quack |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |