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 |
|---|---|
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |