GRE Word List
HAPLESS
having no luck : unfortunate
The meaning of the word hapless is having no luck : unfortunate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |