GRE Word List
CHAFE
irritate
The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| collate | to compare critically |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |