GRE Word List
MELEE
a confused struggle
The meaning of the word melee is a confused struggle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| forebears | ancestor |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |