GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| resign | relegate |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |