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 |
|---|---|
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| docile | easily taught |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| fell | skin |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |