GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| wanton | merciless |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |