GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boor | peasant |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |