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 |
|---|---|
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| quench | put out |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |