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 |
|---|---|
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |