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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mutterto utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed
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ricketyaffected with rickets
figurativerepresenting by a figure or resemblance : emblematic
spoonerisma transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)
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