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 |
|---|---|
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| devious | wandering |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |