GRE Word List

KISMET

fate

The meaning of the word kismet is fate.

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paranoiamental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
phoenixa 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
propulsivetending or having power to propel
cloistera monastic establishment
continencethe ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily
wantonmerciless
threshto separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically
sentimentalmarked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
apogeethe 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
connotationsomething suggested by a word or thing : implication