GRE Word List
ADVERSITY
a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune
The meaning of the word adversity is a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| modish | fashionable |