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 |
|---|---|
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |