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 |
|---|---|
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |