GRE Word List
FORTUITOUS
occurring by chance
The meaning of the word fortuitous is occurring by chance.
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|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
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| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
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| irremediable | not remediable |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |