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 |
|---|---|
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| grotto | cave |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |