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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| 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 |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| grudging | unwilling |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |