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 |
|---|---|
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| drudge | to do hard, menial, or monotonous work |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |