ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsMmedley
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medley
Meaning: a varied mixture of different things, or a sequence of songs performed together
medley in a sentence
How medley is used in real sentences:
The choir closed the concert with a medley of songs from the 1990s.
The radio station played a medley of holiday tunes, switching genres every few minutes without pause.
“That medley of charts, calibration notes, and decay records made the pattern convincing, and the discovery was accepted.”
— from the passage A Place on the Table
Synonyms for medley
Other words for medley — mixture, assortment and blend — carry the same meaning.
- mixture
- assortment
- blend
Where it comes from
From Old French medlee 'a mixture, a brawl'
Memory hook
MEDLEY sounds like MEDDLE — ingredients meddling together into one mix.