GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
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|---|---|
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |