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ELTWeekly Issue #24, Word of the week: melee

By Tarun Patel

melee • \MAY-lay\ • noun

Meaning: a confused struggle; especially : a hand-to-hand fight among several people

Example: The shoppers’ voices grew tense as they argued over the last Cool Sally doll, and for a moment I feared that a melee might erupt.

To know more about the word ‘melee’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jun.02.2009

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About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than  forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.

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