GRE Word List
ODDS
the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances
The meaning of the word odds is the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| inequity | injustice |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| condign | deserved |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |