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
| Word | Meaning |
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| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| refrain | curb |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |