GRE Word List
SCRIMMAGE
a minor battle : skirmish
The meaning of the word scrimmage is a minor battle : skirmish.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| oligarchy | government by the few |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |