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 |
|---|---|
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| growl | rumble |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |