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 |
|---|---|
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| append | attach |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |