GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| license | permission to act |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |