GRE Word List

ASEPTIC

preventing infection

The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.

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WordMeaning
maudlindrunk enough to be emotionally silly
expositoryof, relating to, or containing exposition
adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
pacifistan adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes
unguenta soothing or healing salve : ointment
consummateextremely skilled and accomplished
callusa thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
expurgateto cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous
theoreticalexisting only in theory : hypothetical
facultyability