GRE Word List
ALTERCATION
a noisy, heated, angry dispute
The meaning of the word altercation is a noisy, heated, angry dispute.
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|---|---|
| eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| actuary | clerk |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |