GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |