GRE Word List
ALTERCATION
a noisy, heated, angry dispute
The meaning of the word altercation is a noisy, heated, angry dispute.
Random words
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|---|---|
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| unfrock | defrock |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |