GRE Word List
CONTEST
strive
The meaning of the word contest is strive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| hortatory | hortative |