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 |
|---|---|
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| grotto | cave |
