GRE Word List
AFFIRMATION
the act of affirming
The meaning of the word affirmation is the act of affirming.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |