GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |