GRE Word List
FRACAS
a noisy quarrel : brawl
The meaning of the word fracas is a noisy quarrel : brawl.
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| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| manifestation | the act, process, or an instance of manifesting |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |