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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| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |