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 |
|---|---|
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |