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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| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |