GRE Word List
MISHAP
an unfortunate accident
The meaning of the word mishap is an unfortunate accident.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| demise | death |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |