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 |
|---|---|
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
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