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 |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |