GRE Word List
CONTENTIOUS
likely to cause disagreement or argument
The meaning of the word contentious is likely to cause disagreement or argument.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| curator | a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibits |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |