GRE Word List
FRAY
a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute
The meaning of the word fray is a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute.
Random words
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doze | to sleep lightly |
sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
fortuitous | occurring by chance |
parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
husband | a male partner in a marriage |
symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |