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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libidinoushaving or marked by lustful desires : lascivious
heinoushatefully or shockingly evil : abominable
retrogradehaving or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars
metricalof, relating to, or composed in meter
growlrumble
etymologythe 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
medleya musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces
tillerone that tills : cultivator
fertileproducing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive
cremateto subject to cremation