GRE Word List
AFFECTED
artificial; pretended
The meaning of the word affected is artificial; pretended.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| kismet | fate |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |