GRE Word List
SKIRMISH
a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements
The meaning of the word skirmish is a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| charlatan | quack |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |