GRE Word List
CHAFE
irritate
The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connoisseur | expert |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| mote | a small particle : speck |