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.
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| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
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| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| derogatory | expressive of a low opinion : disparaging |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
