GRE Word List
BRAWL
to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle
The meaning of the word brawl is to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |