GRE Word List

KISMET

fate

The meaning of the word kismet is fate.

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coteriean intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
imperturbablemarked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene
bickerpetulant quarreling : altercation
enterprisingmarked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act
deftcharacterized by facility and skill
deviouswandering
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
gibberishunintelligible or meaningless language:
anthropoidany of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets)
refractiondeflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different