GRE Word List
MISCHIEF
a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent
The meaning of the word mischief is a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| random | a haphazard course |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |