fate
Other forms: fates; fated; fating
Is it your fate to win a fortune in the lottery and retire young? Better hope so. Fate is like destiny, so that means winning the lottery would be an inevitable outcome.
The word fate traces back to the Latin word fatum, meaning “that which has been spoken,” and something that's your fate is a done deal, not open to revision. If you feel like something is your fate, you feel it's beyond your control. Fate is often referred to directly, as if it were a supernatural power: “fate tore us apart." It can also describe your lot in life, like if it's your fate to take over the family farm.
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the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)synonyms: destinytype of:causal agency, causal agent, causeany entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
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an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the futuresynonyms: destinytypes:inevitablean unavoidable eventkarma(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnationpredestinationprevious determination as if by destiny or fatetype of:
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)“deserved a better fate”types:providencea manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creaturesfailurelack of successweaknessthe condition of being financially weakhard cheesebad luckbankruptcya state of complete lack of some abstract propertybank failurethe inability of a bank to meet its credit obligationscrop failurethe failure of crops to produce a marketable surplusdead ducksomething doomed to failuretype of:conditiona mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
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decree or designate beforehand
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As you read W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 2: The Tell-Tale Heart, Scary Tales, The Monkey's Paw, What Is the Horror Genre?