GRE Word List
MISHAP
an unfortunate accident
The meaning of the word mishap is an unfortunate accident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| whimsy | whim |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| lunar | crescent |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |