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 |
|---|---|
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| welter | writhe |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| exhume | disinter |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |