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 |
|---|---|
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| retrench | cut down |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |