| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| trivet | (noun) a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table | - |
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| (noun) a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth | - |
| trivia | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, triviality |
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| trivial | (adjective) concerned with trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: superficial |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| triviality | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, trivia |
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| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, slightness |
| (noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: trifle |
| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| trivially | (adverb) in a frivolously trivial manner | - |
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| (adverb) with little effort | - |
| trivium | (noun) (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence | - |
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| uncontrived | (adjective) not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | Synonyms: unstudied |
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