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 |
|---|---|
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| seasonable | suitable to the season or circumstances : timely |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |