GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| imprecation | curse |