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 |
|---|---|
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| historic | historical |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| cherubic | an order of angels see celestial hierarchy |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |