GRE Word List

CHAFE

irritate

The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.

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drabslattern
officiousvolunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome
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littera covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger
proletariana member of the proletariat
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