GRE Word List
AFFECTED
artificial; pretended
The meaning of the word affected is artificial; pretended.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| warranted | sanction |
| raiment | clothing |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |