GRE Word List
HAPLESS
having no luck : unfortunate
The meaning of the word hapless is having no luck : unfortunate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| exploit | deed |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |