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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| laud | praise |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |