GRE Word List
ANTISEPTIC
opposing microbial infection
The meaning of the word antiseptic is opposing microbial infection.
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|---|---|
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| diva | prima donna |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |