GRE Word List
VYING
contending; to strive for superiority
The meaning of the word vying is contending; to strive for superiority.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |