GRE Word List
ALTERCATION
a noisy, heated, angry dispute
The meaning of the word altercation is a noisy, heated, angry dispute.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| spoof | deceive |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |