GRE Word List
AFFECTED
artificial; pretended
The meaning of the word affected is artificial; pretended.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |