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 |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| defer | put off |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |