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 |
|---|---|
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| oversee | survey |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| countenance | look |