GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| retrench | cut down |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| clime | climate |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |