GRE Word List
ANTISEPTIC
opposing microbial infection
The meaning of the word antiseptic is opposing microbial infection.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |