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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| minuscule | very small |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| boor | peasant |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |