GRE Word List
DISSENSION
disagreement
The meaning of the word dissension is disagreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |