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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| hurl | rush |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |