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 |
|---|---|
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |