GRE Word List
APHASIA
loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection)
The meaning of the word aphasia is loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| indemnify | to secure against hurt, loss, or damage |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |