GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
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lank | not well filled out : slender |
trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
sow | an adult female swine |
attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
harass | exhaust |
extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |