GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| lode | waterway |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |