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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| forlorn | bereft |
| hardy | bold |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| delude | to mislead the mind or judgment of : deceive |