Vocabulary Word
Word: mischance
Definition: ill luck
Definition: ill luck
Sentences Containing 'mischance'
She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favorite haunt of hers.
He would have been discovered by the beating of his heart, if by any mischance the jailers had entered at that moment.
He was clearly so scared by his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his bird.
More Vocab Words
::: qualify - reach a necessary standard; limit the meaning of something stated::: relent - become less severe; give in(surrender); ADJ. relentless: unyielding; continuously severe
::: bound - leap or spring; limit or confine; constitute the limit of; Ex. bounded by Canada; N: leap or jumping; boundary; ADJ: certain; having a duty to do something (legally or morally); confined by bonds; Ex. We are bound to be late; Ex. I am bound to say my opinion; CF. bounce, rebound
::: aloof - apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV.
::: presentiment - premonition; foreboding; feeling something will happen; anticipatory fear
::: pundit - authority on a subject; expert; learned person
::: ravage - devastate; plunder; despoil; Ex. crops ravaged by storms
::: dearth - scarcity
::: inscrutable - difficult to understand; impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious
::: economy - efficiency or conciseness in using something; thrifty management of resources
