GRE Word List
MAYHEM
needless or willful damage or violence
The meaning of the word mayhem is needless or willful damage or violence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| amend | to put right |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |