GRE Word List
ANTISEPTIC
opposing microbial infection
The meaning of the word antiseptic is opposing microbial infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |