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 |
|---|---|
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |