GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| sentinel | sentry |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| shambles | a meat market |
| application | an act of applying: |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |