GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
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| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| demure | reserved |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |