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 |
|---|---|
| pilfer | steal |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| score | twenty |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| gnome | maxim |