GRE Word List
CONTENTION
a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument
The meaning of the word contention is a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| remnant | a usually small part, member, or trace remaining |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| arid | excessively dry |