GRE Word List
EXERTION
the act or an instance of exerting
The meaning of the word exertion is the act or an instance of exerting.
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |