GRE Word List
HAVOC
widespread damage; disorder; chaos
The meaning of the word havoc is widespread damage; disorder; chaos.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exasperate | vex; annoy or make angry (by testing the patience) |
| advocacy | support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something |
| addle | make or become confused; muddle; drive crazy; become rotten (egg) |
| backslide | revert (to bad habits); N. reverter |
| continence | self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent |
| allure | entice; attract; tempt |
| desultory | aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
| brackish | somewhat saline |
| galvanic | of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal; having the effect of an electric shock; Ex. galvanic cell; galvanic effect; CF. Luigi Galvani |
| diadem | crown |
