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 |
|---|---|
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| retiring | reserved |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |