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 |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| shove | to push along |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |