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 |
|---|---|
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| romp | one that romps |
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| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |