GRE Word List
MELEE
a confused struggle
The meaning of the word melee is a confused struggle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |