GRE Word List
SERENDIPITY
the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
The meaning of the word serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| defer | put off |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |