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 |
|---|---|
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| exude | to ooze out |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
