GRE Word List
MISHAP
an unfortunate accident
The meaning of the word mishap is an unfortunate accident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| regime | regimen |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |