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af·flic·tion
 affliction
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- pronunciation:
flIk
shn
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
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a condition of pain or suffering, or the cause of such a state.
Her arthritis had become a painful affliction that limited her activity.His considered his shyness as an affliction.- synonyms:
- distress, misery, suffering
- antonyms:
- blessing, comfort, solace
- similar words:
- adversity, blow, burden, complaint, cross, discomfort, evil, grief, hardship, harm, hurt, ill, pain, plague, scourge, sore, sorrow, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe
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ache, ailment, blight, calamity, care, curse, despair, disability, disaster, disease, disorder, fire, gall, horror, ill, illness, malady, misery, ordeal, plague, thorn, tragedy, weight, yoke |
adjective + (n.)affliction
chronic, common, debilitating, human, incurable, lethal, mental, minor, mysterious, painful, physical, psychological, rare, similar, terrible, universal
verb + (n.)affliction
cure, endure, experience, overcome, resemble, suffer, treat
(n.)affliction
+ verb
cause, range, strike, visit
noun + (n.)affliction
bread, cause, childhood, combination, cure, homosexuality, illness, pain, plague, spirit, suffering, susceptibility, symptom, treatment
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The word affliction
contains the following parts:
af-
Latin
prefix
that means to, toward
  More about this word part:
The prefix af-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of ad- used before roots beginning with "f," such as fil 1 and fix. See ad-.
Example words:
affect, affection, afferent, affiance, affiliate, affinity, affirm, affix, afflatus, afflict, affliction, affluent, affront, disaffect
flic
Latin
root
that means strike
Example words:
-ion
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means the act, process, or result of
More about this word part:
The suffix -ion
attaches to bases that are Latin verb stems ending in s or t.
Example words:
ablation, abrasion, accession, action, addiction, addition, admission, adoption, affection, affliction, aggression, ambition, attention, audition, commission, commissioner, compassion, compassionate, conclusion, condition, confusion, congestion, construction, direction, diction, dictionary, exclusion, expedition, fusion, illusion, immersion, incision, interaction, inquisition, mission, nation, omission, passion, passionate, permission, prediction, prescription, question, reaction, reflection, rendition, revolution, satisfaction, section, session, solution, television, transaction
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