GRE Word List
AFFECTED
artificial; pretended
The meaning of the word affected is artificial; pretended.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| addle | rotten |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| actuary | clerk |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |