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 |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| acne | a disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| cohorts | companion |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| facsimile | an exact copy |