GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
disorderly fight between two or more people
The meaning of the word scrimmage is disorderly fight between two or more people.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bar | railing in a courtroom; legal profession; vertical line dividing a staff into equal measures; Ex. prisoner at the bar; V: shut in or out with bars; forbid; exclude; CF. barrister |
| outlaw | fugitive from the law (excluded from legal protection); V: declare (someone) to be an outlaw; deprive of the protection of the law; declare illegal; Ex. Drinking has been outlawed. |
| torrid | (of weather) hot or scorching; passionate; Ex. torrid love affairs |
| enrapture | please intensely; fill with rapture and delight |
| gall | annoy; exasperate; chafe; N: skin sore caused by rubbing (as on the skin of a horse); exasperation |
| filth | dirty matter; ADJ. filthy |
| illicit | illegal |
| invert | turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position or condition of |
| pith | core or marrow; spongelike substance in the center of stems; essence; substance |
| uxorious | excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife; CF. uxor: wife |
