GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| primal | original |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |