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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| imprecation | curse |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |