Dear diary, today was a day of school i will never forget. we held our class elections today—and what a campaign we had! the race for class president is always contentious, and the candidates struggle to win every vote they can. this contest, however, will go down in the history books. the day started out in the auditorium. the principal gathered my class together and announced that there would be a debate between the candidates. the students started to cheer and clap in excitement. principal granger asked the candidates to join her on the stage. in the first paragraph the word contentious means a) long. b) noisy. c) hard fought d) controversial.