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 |
|---|---|
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| malediction | curse |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| stench | stink |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |