GRE Word List
FORTUITOUS
occurring by chance
The meaning of the word fortuitous is occurring by chance.
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|---|---|
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
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| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
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