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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|---|---|
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| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |