GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |