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 |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| cemetery | a burial ground |