GRE Word List
AFFINITY
relationship by marriage
The meaning of the word affinity is relationship by marriage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |