GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
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| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| lampoon | satire |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |