GRE Word List
ALCHEMY
a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
The meaning of the word alchemy is a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
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| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
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