GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| gnarl | snarl |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| fluke | flatfish |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |