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 |
|---|---|
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |