GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
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|---|---|
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| exquisite | marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |