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 |
|---|---|
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| replicate | duplicate |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |