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 |
|---|---|
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| encompass | include |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |