GRE Word List
CHAFE
irritate
The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |