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 |
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| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| betray | to lead astray |
| dowse | to plunge into water |