GRE Word List
MELEE
a confused struggle
The meaning of the word melee is a confused struggle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| mural | of, relating to, or resembling a wall |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |