GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| crass | gross |