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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |