GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| 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 |
| ploy | escapade |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |