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 |
|---|---|
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| retrench | cut down |
| hurl | rush |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |