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 |
|---|---|
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| fluke | flatfish |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| pedagogue | teacher |