GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
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confide | to have confidence : trust |
variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
cloister | a monastic establishment |
standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
monotony | tedious sameness |
sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |