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 |
|---|---|
| rightful | just |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |