GRE Word List
AFFECTED
artificial; pretended
The meaning of the word affected is artificial; pretended.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| 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) |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |