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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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| plait | pleat |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| edifice | building |