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 |
|---|---|
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |