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 |
|---|---|
| pedagogue | teacher |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| congenial | pleasant |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |