GRE Word List
CONTEND
to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle
The meaning of the word contend is to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |