GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |