GRE Word List
DEVISE
to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent
The meaning of the word devise is to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |