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 |
|---|---|
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| pending | during |