GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
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|---|---|
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| ebullient | boiling |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |