GRE Word List
DISSENSION
disagreement
The meaning of the word dissension is disagreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |