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 |
|---|---|
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
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| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
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| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
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