GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| peerless | matchless |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |