GRE Word List
FORTUITOUS
occurring by chance
The meaning of the word fortuitous is occurring by chance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| meter | systematically arranged and measured rhythm (see rhythm |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |