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 |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| dingy | dirty |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |