GRE Word List
MAYHEM
injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim
The meaning of the word mayhem is injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squander | waste; spend foolishly |
| legacy | gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor |
| cloying | distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess |
| mercurial | capricious; quick and changing; fickle; containing the element mercury; Ex. mercurial temper; CF. mood |
| embody | give a bodily form to; incorporate; include |
| impasse | predicament(dangerous condition) from which there is no escape; situation allowing for no further progress |
| spectral | ghostly; N. specter: spectre; ghost; phantom |
| wan | having a pale or sickly color; pallid |
| wince | move back suddenly; shrink back; flinch; Ex. She winced as she touched the cold body. |
| acclivity | sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity |
