GRE Word List
MISHAP
an unfortunate accident
The meaning of the word mishap is an unfortunate accident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| spate | freshet |