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 |
|---|---|
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |