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 |
|---|---|
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |