GRE Word List
AFFINITY
relationship by marriage
The meaning of the word affinity is relationship by marriage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| approbation | commendation |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |