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 |
|---|---|
| warranted | sanction |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| mischance | bad luck |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |