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 |
|---|---|
| minuscule | very small |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| grotto | cave |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |