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 |
|---|---|
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| motley | variegated in color |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |