GRE Word List
AFFLICTION
a cause of persistent pain or distress
The meaning of the word affliction is a cause of persistent pain or distress.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| billow | wave |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |