GRE Word List
MISADVENTURE
misfortune
The meaning of the word misadventure is misfortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| categorical | absolute |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |