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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
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| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
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| ramification | branch |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |