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 |
|---|---|
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |