GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |