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 |
|---|---|
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| trappings | outward signs |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |