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 |
|---|---|
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| pummel | pound |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| plait | pleat |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| ossify | to change into bone |