GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drab | slattern |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| polity | political organization |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| bulk | magnitude |
| submerge | to put under water |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |