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.
Random words
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converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
residual | remainder |
doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |