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 |
|---|---|
| brazen | made of brass |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |