GRE Word List
CONTENTION
assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition
The meaning of the word contention is assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent |
| betray | be unfaithful; reveal (unconsciously or unwillingly); Ex. Her trembling hands betray her anxiety. |
| derision | ridicule; ADJ. derisive; CF. derisory |
| interrogate | question closely; cross-examine; cross-question |
| novelty | something new; newness; ADJ. novel: new; original |
| germinal | pertaining to a germ; creative; Ex. germinal idea |
| augury | omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; V. augur: predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future) |
| usury | lending money at illegal high rates of interest |
| inchoate | (of desire, wish, plan) recently begun; not explicit; at the beginning of development; rudimentary; elementary; Ex. inchoate mass |
| badger | pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal |
