GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| brink | edge |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |