GRE Word List
CONTEST
strive
The meaning of the word contest is strive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coalesce | to grow together |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |