GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reckon | count |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| imprecation | curse |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |