GRE Word List
AFFINITY
relationship by marriage
The meaning of the word affinity is relationship by marriage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| 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) |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
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| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |