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 |
|---|---|
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |