GRE Word List

KISMET

fate

The meaning of the word kismet is fate.

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WordMeaning
dominantcommanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
superciliouscoolly and patronizingly haughty
reinstateto place again (as in possession or in a former position)
penologya branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders
insensibleincapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as
tautologicalinvolving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant
referendumthe principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative
demoticof, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing
far-fetchedbrought from a remote time or place
anachronisman error in chronology