GRE Word List
MISCHANCE
bad luck
The meaning of the word mischance is bad luck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| reverie | daydream |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |