GRE Word List

ASEPTIC

preventing infection

The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.

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tightwada close or miserly person
cameoa gem carved in relief (see relief
idlenot occupied or employed: such as
knitto form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles
clapto strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
proverba brief popular epigram or maxim : adage
pass_offpresent falsely; represent falsely to be
harbingersomething that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
bereavedsuffering the death of a loved one
jocularsaid or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful