GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| 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 |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |