GRE Word List
HAP
happening
The meaning of the word hap is happening.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |