GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
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| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |