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.
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presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
ciliated | possessing cilia |
obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
remunerative | serving to remunerate |
bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |
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discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |