GRE Word List
SCUFFLE
to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion
The meaning of the word scuffle is to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
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| swathe | a band used in swathing |
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