Vocabulary Builder

Vocabulary Builder

    Improve Your Writing

  • Boost your vocabulary
  • See words in the context of real sentences
  • Learn by association and by definition
  • Master a new lexicon!

Get Started Below

Vocabulary Word

Word: scrimmage

Definition: disorderly fight between two or more people


Sentences Containing 'scrimmage'

He then, finding himself so handled, by whom he knew not, raising himself up as well as he could, grappled with Maritornes, and he and she between them began the bitterest and drollest scrimmage in the world.

More Vocab Words

::: sycophant - servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man; ADJ. sycophantic
::: demise - death
::: accessible - easy to approach; obtainable
::: formidable - menacing; arousing fear; threatening; difficult to defeat; Ex. formidable foe/question
::: placid - peaceful; calm; Ex. placid child/lake
::: amalgam - combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth
::: ruminate - chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically); mull over(ponder)
::: meticulous - excessively careful (with great attention to detail); painstaking; scrupulous
::: compartment - one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided
::: suavity - urbanity; polish; ADJ. suave: smooth and courteous