GRE Word List

VICISSITUDE

the quality or state of being changeable : mutability

The meaning of the word vicissitude is the quality or state of being changeable : mutability.

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devoutcommitted or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises
ordeala primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control
scrapfragments of discarded or leftover food
mannerismexaggerated or affected (see affected
palatialof, relating to, or being a palace
conventionalformed by agreement or compact
hostilitydeep-seated usually mutual ill will
provisionthe act or process of providing
laggardlagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind
scowlto contract the brow in an expression of displeasure