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 |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |