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 |
|---|---|
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| addle | rotten |