GRE Word List
AFFRONT
to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
The meaning of the word affront is to insult especially to the face by behavior or language.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| dynamo | generator |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |