GRE Word List
BRAWL
to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle
The meaning of the word brawl is to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| impuissance | weakness |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |