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 |
|---|---|
| onus | burden |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| osseous | bony |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |