GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |