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 |
|---|---|
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| brink | edge |