GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |