GRE Word List
INFRACTION
the act of infringing : violation
The meaning of the word infraction is the act of infringing : violation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
