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 |
|---|---|
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| realm | kingdom |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| primal | original |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |