GRE Word List
MISHAP
an unfortunate accident
The meaning of the word mishap is an unfortunate accident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |