GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |