GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paste | a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| vanguard | the forefront of an action or movement |
| countenance | look |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |