GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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allude | to make indirect reference |
zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
apoplexy | stroke |
induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |