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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| arid | excessively dry |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |