GRE Word List

ASEPTIC

preventing infection

The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.

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deciduousfalling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle
vieto strive for superiority : contend
derangedmentally unsound : crazy
clichea trite phrase or expression
synopticaffording a general view of a whole
oustto remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
raveto talk irrationally in or as if in delirium
imperceptiblenot perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle
germa small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts
sticklerone who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something