GRE Word List
HAPLESS
having no luck : unfortunate
The meaning of the word hapless is having no luck : unfortunate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| canny | clever |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |