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 |
|---|---|
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| irate | roused to ire |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |