GRE Word List
TENSION
inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion
The meaning of the word tension is inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| 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 |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |