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 |
|---|---|
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |